Carol Patterson is one of the most important women in building international lacrosse and helping to launch Canada’s involvement with the women’s field game.

Her lacrosse resume includes a career filled with coaching, officiating and administration. She has coached lacrosse in Baltimore County, New York State, at SUNY Buffalo and Niagara University.

As an administrator she served as a Director on the board of the Iroquois Nationals.

She was active in the family business Tuskewe Krafts – a wooden lacrosse stick manufacturer - with her husband John Wesley Patterson.

Their sticks were distributed worldwide and coveted by female lacrosse players.

They set up a Canadian company as well called Canam Lacrosse Ltd. Carol Patterson ran the Niagara Girls Lacrosse Camp as well.

Patterson wrote the US Lacrosse PE Curriculum for grades 4-12 in 2006 and was involved in CD Rom and Course development for the Canadian Lacrosse Association.

Some of her accolades include induction into the Western New York Lacrosse Hall of Fame, earned the Canadian Lacrosse Association Certificate of Merit, and the International Federation of Women’s Lacrosse Association Recognition Award.

The OUA Women’s Lacrosse Champions are awarded the Patterson Cup each year.